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07.06.2023 - 05:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Greater Manchester Police PCSO is accused of exchanging confidential information for a sexual favour from a woman he met on the beat, a court has heard.
Mark Turner, 32, swapped 'lurid sexual messages' with the woman after he met her while investigating a theft from her place of work, LancsLive reports. The messages "made the most racy Carry On Film sound like Songs of Praise", Turner's barrister Mr Williams said.
On November 14, 2018, the woman asked Turner to check the police logs and provide the details of the officers who attended a domestic incident a few days earlier, the court head. She quoted the police log number, saying: "Suck your d*** for information", and ended the message with an emoji.
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Turner asked "not you is it?" but before the woman replied, he checked two police logs relating to the incident. He later messaged the woman, telling her: "you owe me a BJ."
In the witness box at Preston Crown Court, Turner said he believed he was accessing the police logs for legitimate policing purposes. He said domestic incidents are a priority within GMP and he was assessing risk from a member of the public. He said he checked the logs to ascertain whether the woman was involved in the incident and whether it was an incident which had taken place in his policing area.
"Domestics are a force wide priority", he said. "They are a red flag. I have to ascertain whether it is her involved, someone else involved, or whether it is a third party. All I know is it is a domestic issue and she has got a log number."
He admitted his 'sexting' relationship with the woman was immoral but insisted he had never met up with her outside of her place of work, where
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